September 7, 1966 (16 pages)

a re J Where All The Kids Will — Go Is The Big Question — (Continued from Page 1) The Ready Springs Union Dis. trict will open next Monday. The Washington District started school last week. School officials have been juggling figures for several weeks now trying to second guess just what the enrollment and class loads will be, but it will be several weeks before the influx of new students, transfers and changes settle down enough to determine firm figures. County School Superintendent Edward Fellersen said yesterday that it was just a guess, but he anticipated that enrollment would be up about 150 to 200 students in the 11 elementary and one high school district in the western end of the county, Opening enrollment last year ? forall western districts was 4,675, With the Labor Day Holiday, districts are facing a short week and are using it in most cases to get students into the proper classes and courses and straighten out tangles in bus schedules that always develop in the beginning of the year, The ttigh 1 District had © be out of the former Grats Valley High School Building and have ninth graders housed in the Ridge Road plant, but had to keep the students there this year while plans go ahead for construction of the * new classes at Ridge Road, Grass Valley had hoped to house students in the old portion of the old high school building, but that portion of the building was declared to be unsafe and the district had to rent two portable classrooms and put the first three grades on double sessions, Both the high school and the Grass Valley districts are anti4 Cipating enrollment increases. Some of the rural districts are anticipating drops in enrollment, but current and pending road and dam construction projects in the area could change the enrollment pictures in all of the ‘districts rapidly. Freeway Situation May Be Clarified This Week (Continued from Page 1) hands of Fadel. Although everyone in town had a different story at to the current status of the job this week, neither the Division of Highways nor the attorney for the contractor was willing to make any comments on the work until the latest hearing pending beforethe bankruptcy court. It was indicated last week that if the state deemed it advisable to move in on the job here, in all probability, the job would be readvertised on informal cong tracts and this could be accom plished in about two weeks after the state officially took over the project, Dell Eddy, French . Corral Native, Dies In Hanford Miss Dell Eddy, a former native daughter of French Corral, born March 15, 1969, passed away September 2, 1966, in a Hanford hospital, Miss Eddy‘s father purchased the National Hotel in 1870 and sold to the Rector Brothers in 1887, moving his family to California, where he opened a bank, Miss Eddy worked for her father over twenty-five years, She spent fifteen years in Red Cross work, Until recently she was very active in the Episcopal Church, Miss Eddy was in an automobile accident last April, from which shenever recovered the injuries, OPO IG EG OO 1G Gad WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES President Johnson Answers DeGaulles Viet Nam Charges French President CHARLES DEGAULLE, touring Southeast Asia‘ last week as part of a world-wide trip, said that the only way to’end the war in Viet Nam was for all American troops to withdraw. President Johnson, in a speech delivered Monday answered DeGaulle by saying that as soon as North Vietnamese aggression and infiltration ceased, he would release a timetable for the removal of American troops from that country. eeese . In VIET NAM, ground fighting slackened, but Viet Cong ‘“ terrorism increased inanattempt to thwart constitutional elections scheduled for later this month, U.S, planes continued pounding supply bases and routes in North Viet Nam and flew missions in support of ground " actions in the south, e@eeoeoe? UNITED NATIONS Secretary General UThant announced last week thathe would resign at the end of his current term and would not consider a draft movement to get him to reconsider his decision, Current world tensions and the failure of the UN to do anything about the steadily: increasing war in Viet Nam are thought to have influenced Thant's decision, The United States immediately started a movement to get Thant to reconsider his earlier position, but as of early this week, Thant said he would still resign, eee2se RED GUARDS, youthful teenage gangs in Communist China, continued to rampage across the country in search of “revisionists,” Activities of the Red Guards in harrassing foreign diplomats in China has caused several complaints including at least two formal complaints from Russia, Sources watchjng the progress of the Red Guards movementhave speculated that Chitiese Communist leader Mao Tze-tung went tothe youthful groups to purge dissidents from the Communist party heirarchy when he found he could not trust party leaders to do the job, CHILDREN POURED into the Nevada City Elementary School yesterday morning as schools opened for anew term throughout Western Nevada County. Grand Jury Calls Road Pclicy Inconsistent And Presents Plan (Continued from Page 1) county will have to share the expense: of bringing these roads to county standards,” the report noted, “Naturally this will eventually happen when property owners sell parcels of land, using as a sales pitch that the property borders on a county road, owned and maintained by the county, which will mean more homeowners demanding rural mail delivery and school bus service, This may be some distance away, but just how far ahead are we supposed to look?” The report also cited Brooks Road, Pine Cone Circle, Mills Road, Cemetery Road, Wheeler Road and Skewes Lane as roads taken into the county system in the recent past for which the county is now liable for their upkeep, “These roads without exception did not meet any of the county road standards and are inferior to subdivision roads previously complained of, ” The road committee presented a nine point program for determination of a policy on road standards, Supervisor Don Blake commented that most of the roads Weather NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Aug. 31 69 39 % Sept. 1 78 42 2.86: 4 3 86 45 4: 89° 47 § 91 50 6 91 #450 Rainfall to date 08 Rainfall last year 1.08 GRASS VALLEY : Max, Min, Rainfall Aug. 31 76 45 2 86 48 3 90 50 4 94 54 5 9 56 : 6 96 56 Rainfall to date 09 Rainfall last year 96 were taken into the county system 20 years ago and the ones mentioned in the report should have been taken in at the same time, Supervisor Lou Hartman agreed that there should be a definite policy on road standards for county acceptance, val Chairman Gene Ricker tlianked the committee for its work and said the board would study the recommendations for a road pos licy, County Has Quiet Labor Day Weekend While Californians were creating havoc on the roads throughout the state, the long Labor Day weekend wastermed a good one by local law officials, Grass Valley and Nevada City police reported minor traffic accidents, but no injuries, Emest Carl Beck of 404 Alta Vista Avenue, Grass Valley, received a cut on his forehead when he fell asleep at the wheel Saturday night and his car hit the bridge crossing the Mi@lle Yuba River, Harlan F, Hunt of Yuba City was cited by the Califomia Highway Patrol for failure to keep his vehicle under control on a mountain road, after his car went over a bank on Highway 20, Hewastakento Miner's Hospital for treatment, Headquarters To Open Tomorrow The Democratic campaign headquarters in Grass Valley will be officially opened tomorrow afternoon with a reception for the public, The public is invited to attend the opening reception from noon to4p.m, tomorrow at the headquarters at 103 Mill Street. Free cake and coffee will be served, After the opening tomorrow, there will be a registrar on duty from noon until 4 p.m, every weekday until the registration deadline of Sept. 15. County Tax Rate Is Set At $2.64 T he Nevada County Board of Supervisors last week officially set the new tax rate at $2.64 per $100 of assessed valuation, It was $2.58 last year, Broken down, the county rate calls for $2.535 for the general fund; $ .03 for the exploitation fund; .035 for the accumulative capital outlay fund and .04 for the aviation fund, The board also approved school tax rates including an areawide school tax of 66 cents for elementary and 55 cents for the high school to equalize county school taxes under the CollierBurns assessment average program. A new tax of .02 cents for the education of physically handicapped in WestenNevada County was also approved. CHP Commander Found Dead In His Home Lt. Gordon Wallihan, commander of the Grass ValleyNevada City unit of the California Highway Patrol, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Grass Valley, He was 57. According to Deputy Coroner Bill Mullis, Sr, death was due to naturalcauses, Wallihan had had two operations for cancer in recent years, but continued to work up until the time of his death, His body was found by a neighbor yesterday morning. Wallihan joined the Highway Patrol in 1941 and served in the San Joaquin Valley, the Bay Area and the Sacramento headquarters before being promoted to lieutenantin 1957 and taking over command of the local CHP office, He is survived by his wife and one son in San Mateo, The body is at the HooperWeaver Mortuary where funeral arrangements are pending. Alan Cranston To Be Guest Of Honor At Grass Valley Dinner State Controller Alan Cranston will be the guest of honor at a public dinner scheduled for Saturday night in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Buildin e The event being sponsored by the Nevada County Committee to Re-Elect Alan Cranston, is being held to give local residents achance to meet the candidate who is running for his third term as state controller, Grass Valley Mayor John Hodge will act as master of ceremonies at the dinner and many other city and county officials are expected to attend, The cocktail hour is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and a barbecued chicken dinner will be served at at7 p.m. Tickets for the dinner are available at Nevada County Printing on West Main Street in Grass Valley, from committee members and will also be available at the door. The committee invites the public to attend and discuss issues with the candidate,

a re J Where All The Kids Will — Go Is The Big Question — (Continued from Page 1) The Ready Springs Union Dis. trict will open next Monday. The Washington District started school last week. School officials have been juggling figures for several weeks now trying to second guess just what the enrollment and class loads will be, but it will be several weeks before the influx of new students, transfers and changes settle down enough to determine firm figures. County School Superintendent Edward Fellersen said yesterday that it was just a guess, but he anticipated that enrollment would be up about 150 to 200 students in the 11 elementary and one high school district in the western end of the county, Opening enrollment last year ? forall western districts was 4,675, With the Labor Day Holiday, districts are facing a short week and are using it in most cases to get students into the proper classes and courses and straighten out tangles in bus schedules that always develop in the beginning of the year, The ttigh 1 District had © be out of the former Grats Valley High School Building and have ninth graders housed in the Ridge Road plant, but had to keep the students there this year while plans go ahead for construction of the * new classes at Ridge Road, Grass Valley had hoped to house students in the old portion of the old high school building, but that portion of the building was declared to be unsafe and the district had to rent two portable classrooms and put the first three grades on double sessions, Both the high school and the Grass Valley districts are anti4 Cipating enrollment increases. Some of the rural districts are anticipating drops in enrollment, but current and pending road and dam construction projects in the area could change the enrollment pictures in all of the ‘districts rapidly. Freeway Situation May Be Clarified This Week (Continued from Page 1) hands of Fadel. Although everyone in town had a different story at to the current status of the job this week, neither the Division of Highways nor the attorney for the contractor was willing to make any comments on the work until the latest hearing pending beforethe bankruptcy court. It was indicated last week that if the state deemed it advisable to move in on the job here, in all probability, the job would be readvertised on informal cong tracts and this could be accom plished in about two weeks after the state officially took over the project, Dell Eddy, French . Corral Native, Dies In Hanford Miss Dell Eddy, a former native daughter of French Corral, born March 15, 1969, passed away September 2, 1966, in a Hanford hospital, Miss Eddy‘s father purchased the National Hotel in 1870 and sold to the Rector Brothers in 1887, moving his family to California, where he opened a bank, Miss Eddy worked for her father over twenty-five years, She spent fifteen years in Red Cross work, Until recently she was very active in the Episcopal Church, Miss Eddy was in an automobile accident last April, from which shenever recovered the injuries, OPO IG EG OO 1G Gad WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES President Johnson Answers DeGaulles Viet Nam Charges French President CHARLES DEGAULLE, touring Southeast Asia‘ last week as part of a world-wide trip, said that the only way to’end the war in Viet Nam was for all American troops to withdraw. President Johnson, in a speech delivered Monday answered DeGaulle by saying that as soon as North Vietnamese aggression and infiltration ceased, he would release a timetable for the removal of American troops from that country. eeese . In VIET NAM, ground fighting slackened, but Viet Cong ‘“ terrorism increased inanattempt to thwart constitutional elections scheduled for later this month, U.S, planes continued pounding supply bases and routes in North Viet Nam and flew missions in support of ground " actions in the south, e@eeoeoe? UNITED NATIONS Secretary General UThant announced last week thathe would resign at the end of his current term and would not consider a draft movement to get him to reconsider his decision, Current world tensions and the failure of the UN to do anything about the steadily: increasing war in Viet Nam are thought to have influenced Thant's decision, The United States immediately started a movement to get Thant to reconsider his earlier position, but as of early this week, Thant said he would still resign, eee2se RED GUARDS, youthful teenage gangs in Communist China, continued to rampage across the country in search of “revisionists,” Activities of the Red Guards in harrassing foreign diplomats in China has caused several complaints including at least two formal complaints from Russia, Sources watchjng the progress of the Red Guards movementhave speculated that Chitiese Communist leader Mao Tze-tung went tothe youthful groups to purge dissidents from the Communist party heirarchy when he found he could not trust party leaders to do the job, CHILDREN POURED into the Nevada City Elementary School yesterday morning as schools opened for anew term throughout Western Nevada County. Grand Jury Calls Road Pclicy Inconsistent And Presents Plan (Continued from Page 1) county will have to share the expense: of bringing these roads to county standards,” the report noted, “Naturally this will eventually happen when property owners sell parcels of land, using as a sales pitch that the

property borders on a county road, owned and maintained by the county, which will mean more homeowners demanding rural mail delivery and school bus service, This may be some distance away, but just how far ahead are we supposed to look?” The report also cited Brooks Road, Pine Cone Circle, Mills Road, Cemetery Road, Wheeler Road and Skewes Lane as roads taken into the county system in the recent past for which the county is now liable for their upkeep, “These roads without exception did not meet any of the county road standards and are inferior to subdivision roads previously complained of, ” The road committee presented a nine point program for determination of a policy on road standards, Supervisor Don Blake commented that most of the roads Weather NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Aug. 31 69 39 % Sept. 1 78 42 2.86: 4 3 86 45 4: 89° 47 § 91 50 6 91 #450 Rainfall to date 08 Rainfall last year 1.08 GRASS VALLEY : Max, Min, Rainfall Aug. 31 76 45 2 86 48 3 90 50 4 94 54 5 9 56 : 6 96 56 Rainfall to date 09 Rainfall last year 96 were taken into the county system 20 years ago and the ones mentioned in the report should have been taken in at the same time, Supervisor Lou Hartman agreed that there should be a definite policy on road standards for county acceptance, val Chairman Gene Ricker tlianked the committee for its work and said the board would study the recommendations for a road pos licy, County Has Quiet Labor Day Weekend While Californians were creating havoc on the roads throughout the state, the long Labor Day weekend wastermed a good one by local law officials, Grass Valley and Nevada City police reported minor traffic accidents, but no injuries, Emest Carl Beck of 404 Alta Vista Avenue, Grass Valley, received a cut on his forehead when he fell asleep at the wheel Saturday night and his car hit the bridge crossing the Mi@lle Yuba River, Harlan F, Hunt of Yuba City was cited by the Califomia Highway Patrol for failure to keep his vehicle under control on a mountain road, after his car went over a bank on Highway 20, Hewastakento Miner's Hospital for treatment, Headquarters To Open Tomorrow The Democratic campaign headquarters in Grass Valley will be officially opened tomorrow afternoon with a reception for the public, The public is invited to attend the opening reception from noon to4p.m, tomorrow at the headquarters at 103 Mill Street. Free cake and coffee will be served, After the opening tomorrow, there will be a registrar on duty from noon until 4 p.m, every weekday until the registration deadline of Sept. 15. County Tax Rate Is Set At $2.64 T he Nevada County Board of Supervisors last week officially set the new tax rate at $2.64 per $100 of assessed valuation, It was $2.58 last year, Broken down, the county rate calls for $2.535 for the general fund; $ .03 for the exploitation fund; .035 for the accumulative capital outlay fund and .04 for the aviation fund, The board also approved school tax rates including an areawide school tax of 66 cents for elementary and 55 cents for the high school to equalize county school taxes under the CollierBurns assessment average program. A new tax of .02 cents for the education of physically handicapped in WestenNevada County was also approved. CHP Commander Found Dead In His Home Lt. Gordon Wallihan, commander of the Grass ValleyNevada City unit of the California Highway Patrol, was found dead yesterday morning in his apartment in Grass Valley, He was 57. According to Deputy Coroner Bill Mullis, Sr, death was due to naturalcauses, Wallihan had had two operations for cancer in recent years, but continued to work up until the time of his death, His body was found by a neighbor yesterday morning. Wallihan joined the Highway Patrol in 1941 and served in the San Joaquin Valley, the Bay Area and the Sacramento headquarters before being promoted to lieutenantin 1957 and taking over command of the local CHP office, He is survived by his wife and one son in San Mateo, The body is at the HooperWeaver Mortuary where funeral arrangements are pending. Alan Cranston To Be Guest Of Honor At Grass Valley Dinner State Controller Alan Cranston will be the guest of honor at a public dinner scheduled for Saturday night in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Buildin e The event being sponsored by the Nevada County Committee to Re-Elect Alan Cranston, is being held to give local residents achance to meet the candidate who is running for his third term as state controller, Grass Valley Mayor John Hodge will act as master of ceremonies at the dinner and many other city and county officials are expected to attend, The cocktail hour is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and a barbecued chicken dinner will be served at at7 p.m. Tickets for the dinner are available at Nevada County Printing on West Main Street in Grass Valley, from committee members and will also be available at the door. The committee invites the public to attend and discuss issues with the candidate,